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Tiffany Field, founder of Touch Research Institutes, explains why healing is all in our hands.
Need a little light in your life in the winter-time? There may be steps you can take to ward off seasonal affective disorder.
Interviews Judith Rapoport, chief of child psychiatry at the
National Institute of Mental Health. Prevalence of mental illness;
Information on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD); Why OCD exist; What
should parents, teacher and significant others watch for an OCD.
Interviews Doctor Kevin Long about a research on behavioral
development involving neuron transplantation in chickens and quails.
Details on the transplantation; Impact of the transplants on the
behavior; Comparison of brain development in humans and animals.
Interviews Sheldon Solomon, psychology professor at Brooklyn
College in New York City. Concept of terror; Origin of fear; Opinion on
terror management.
Head straight for the fridge when you're upset? Find out
how to stopemotional
eating.
Interviews Kathie Olsen and David Tomko, officials of the United
States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Importance
of NASA research for ordinary people; Participation of NASA in behavioral
research; How astronauts enjoy food in space.
Interviews Stephen J. Suomi, chief of the Laboratory of Comparative
Ethology at the National Institute of Child, Health and Human
Development. Description of Rhesus monkeys; His opinion on the importance
of monkey mothering; Views on cloning.
Interviews Sandra Graham, a professor of Psychological Studies in
Education at the University of California at Los Angeles, on
victimization research concerning schoolchildren. Comparison between
harassment and aggression; Information on school victimization research;
Identification of bullies and victims.
Interviews Ray Hyman, professor emeritus of psychology at the
University of Oregon, about the fascination of the public in the
paranormal. How his interest in the paranormal started; What changed his
belief in the paranormal; Paranormal phenomenon which interests him
most.
Interviews John T. Cacioppo, pioneer of social neuroscience at the
University of Chicago in Illinois. Difference of social neuroscience from
other neuroscience approaches; Details on the research which used the
social neuroscience approach; Benefits of the social neuroscience to the
public.
Women tend to nurture and men to withdraw when life gets hard.
Interviews Norman M. Weinberger, a professor of neurobiology and behavior at the University of California at Irvine, on the role of music in brain function. Elements of music; Fundamental aspect of music perception; Role of musical experience in the human brain.
